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"measuring" poems
large, and in charge as I'd like to put it. chunky, pudgy, fat, plump however you'd like to say it, however it is none of your **** business. I am not a number on a scale or a mile that I haven't run I am not the size of my waist or the "excuses" that have lead me to "let myself go" But I, am human. Say what you will but I love myself. blonde hair, blue eyes a sense of humor that can't me measured with something so feeble as  measuring tape. A love of life that will not be put to rest just because I may need to take a rest every so often. How do you measure happiness? not on a scale or with inches pounds or calories that seem to sneak up on you in the middle of the night and make your pants a bit too snug we judge people for judging people because judging people is wrong we blame society for our corrupt nature, but we are society.
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 8:28 PM UTC
fat
I sit and try and be a lotus after killing the third fly of the evening with a pocket book of recipes and a thirty centimetre ruler stolen from bathroom **** measuring contests to our knees. Young professionals tread these boards and I watch, trying to paint them lotus. I listen and learn like I was told to do then clock watch, mop, cycle home to you; I am still trying to be a lotus even in wet shoes and no socks. With less than five-hundred pounds to my various names, an office-chair-cum-clothes-horse, eight USB charging ports and a future that stretches to Sunday’s last reluctant second, I am sitting, trying to be lotus figuring out the professional path David Attenborough heard in his gentleman’s class: that son of a- - I walked into an army recruitment vault with dreams of being Gulliver, though was asked to leave out the cat flap cathedral door back into war as they’d got their laugh and didn’t applaud. Perhaps I should’ve been better at maths where apparently a career can be predicted on a scatter graph, and the pigeons of today were the pigeons of next year and the months that’ll follow the century after that. I am still trying to figure out the hoo-ha of ************ and ring fingers and collar sizes and the inner circles of hyenas when the winter solstice splits the seasons. There is no reason for this lotus procrastination when what’s there to live for but a crooked world and one bandage left.
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Oct 17, 2016
Oct 17, 2016 at 2:18 PM UTC
I am trying to be a lotus for the millenniu’nth time
”good night, good travels, pitch black” depending on how one counts, cause size matters, do have I one small blessing though little do I get, more-less, in each twenty four measuring cup, when the sleep gas has come-for-inhaling, lidded heavy with greatful/tearful anticipation, it’s less than sixty seconds till dispatched to where all poems plead like unborn angels for good parentage the spoken good night ritual signaled and completed with a perfect half turn skating axel onto ones side, preceded by, a single solid smacking of an innocent but flaccid, equally tired pillow, then lost in pitch black galaxy travels with other sleep-drunk little princes instead of the wavering, singular word, a traditional goodnight, a parting and a haling simultaneous mumbling issuing, undebated and a wish shot to all within dream-shot, a title, “good travels” to places where ferment the aging words under the winemakers watchful caring eyes opening, names or titles, same difference, for the newborn babes
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Apr 29, 2018
Apr 29, 2018 at 11:31 AM UTC
good night, good travels, pitch black
A proud man, Upright and unshakable In belief and morals, Once only I did I see him Without a tie. A child of Edwardian England, The links Of his watch chain Glinted As they hung With formality and elegance From his waistcoat pocket, Yes, even as he worked. And work he did. Patiently, Brilliantly and tirelessly With ingenuity and imagination. A craftsman from a bygone age. A master of his tools. Grandfathers are soft, Playful, bear-like in their Gruff-whiskered familiarity. Not Poppy. Unwittingly aloof from his grandchildren, We avoided the need for directly addressing him, Unsure of where we stood. He’d probably have secretly Loved the informality Of our secret nickname. I hope he knew. The chapel piano did for him. Too much weight for his work-weary ticker. Grandma gave me his pocket watch to keep, And for a time I treasured it, Measuring its weight Like a smooth round pebble In my palm. A workman’s watch; Practical. A yellowing face Behind a scratched And hazy glass. But accurate, And precise. Reliable as the man. Detached in life, I liked to hope that Gazing down, Watching, He just might have Laughed In loving acknowledgement of his Grandson’s curiosity And foolishness Sitting cross-legged on the carpet, With heart-thumping nausea Adrift in a sea of springs.
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Mar 21, 2011
Mar 21, 2011 at 3:15 AM UTC
Lost Link
Estimate tells us the avg. height of a female in the U.S. is 64 inches. This is quantitative. Unfeeling of prospect, the numbers fascinate and baffle. Recent estimation supposes 1500 active volcanoes on the earth of which 500 have erupted since history, the invention of writing.                                                                        Such a short time ago. Measuring in quantities, the earth is 4.5-4.6 billion years old. Creatures of like sentience who never wrote about volcanoes, the age of their earth. Quantities hum of something borrowed. So tight-wound, so deeply close, and yet still.                                                                         Something not ours. Blind, free of invention.
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Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015 at 7:44 PM UTC
Statistics
I think it's my eyes. The glowing hazle stare blankly piercing through whatever bubbles you've shielded yourself with. Arms crossed means you're defensive, raised tone towards the end of a sentence means you're lying but when your lips scrunch together you're holding back something. Maybe it's my thought process. One second I'm talking about polar bears celebrating birthdays with ******* and hexagrams when I shift to a rant about my self empowerment through meditation and how astral travel might be real.   Perhaps I'm too comfortable with myself for you to handle. I don't give a **** how tangled my hair is or what weird religious doctrines you follow. Let's have a conversation, not an unruly **** measuring contest. I truly love you, and all my mild frustration and slight agitation is radiating from a place in my heart that tells me I want you to succeed the most.
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Jul 3, 2012
Jul 3, 2012 at 6:21 PM UTC
Intense
Food. What is food? Is it something everyone needs to survive? Is it the thing that takes forever to make and has even less time time to enjoy? Is it the beautiful plants that grow in the right season that produces so much pride that they deserve an instagram post? Or is the thing that many people will never have the money to see? For me, it is the center of everyday. It is the one thing that I know dictates my entire life. It is the one thing I wish I could forget and the one thing I wish I could live without. It is the thing that forces me to do math, and it is the thing that keeps me from knowing any sort of satisfaction. It is the thing that makes me wish I were someone else, anyone else. It is the thing that I spend hours thinking about, measuring, classifying, and the one thing that I can never seem to get correct. It is also the thing that makes me cry at night. It makes me feel alone. It is the thing that causes me to spend every day working out even when I don't want to, and it has made me be friends with a scale that isn't very friendly. It is a bully, a cruel "ex" friend that wishes I were never born and it is a fighter that knows how to pack a heavy punch. For me, it has not been very kind. It has been the thing that controls who I am. It is THE thing, and sadly, it is everything.
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May 25, 2021
May 25, 2021 at 12:16 AM UTC
Food
I thought I understood distance When I learned at school it is defined as “The amount of space between two points.” I learned distance can be measured in various units As steps, kilometres and miles or even intervals of time. I thought I understood distance When I counted 2362 steps walking to school And noticed my dad’s car meter increasing two miles In three minutes driving me back home. But my understanding had changed when I started measuring longer distances. And attempting to cross them. I travelled a distance measured in kilometres and hours to see him. Such distances can be easily crossed. Either I took the next train, or drove my car Distance as an amount of space was two thousand kilometres And distance as an amount of time was only a few hours. I thought I understood distance, But never the amount of space between two specific points; My lips and his lips. I travelled a distance measured in bottles of wine and years to kiss him. Such distances can’t be easily crossed. I could walk miles of skin And distance as an amount of space between us Could extend tiresome. But such distances aren’t necessarily a barrier. I have crossed all the oceans we created I counted all the bodies And I have indulged in his lips. It took me two bottles of wine and twenty years To actually understand distance But my understanding is obsolete For him and I , Are still two distant entities.
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Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 7:54 AM UTC
Distance as an infinite quantity
"Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly" (2) who needs challenges, commissions. kicks~in~le butte~ when heaven heaves rains, one downs tall orders in short shot glass verses, which glossed over at its first communion(cation, come back months later to subtract - another poem from where it lay dormant on the doormat of my sub~sub~terranes of my diluted subconscious au natured dry & rugged terrain a favored poet, a secretive admirer, whoa~whose~her truthful name, I've yet to uncover, but whose one true soul inspires me repeatedly, ana~lyrically licks me into dredging from me un begrudgingly and yet, another love poem, she herself wrote when elixiring (commentating (3)) 'pon one of mine, a long long time ago Alas!  Alack! unnaturally immodest, one concedes, when obviously a Super~Woman!-cedes, seeds in three verses, what I  could never unknot nor uncover so I requite & requote with unlabored pleasure miz patty m's primary terse verse, neither secondary & never tertiary, her absolut perfect mixed drink defining, summarizing, the essences of love *"(Love) Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly"* I concede, in deed, and in writing, I know nothing, of writing of only love poetry and all the great predecessors, elsewhere lyricized, named and tabulated, by yet another women, (1) I will take my weary words elsewhere, and if perhaps, disguised as a woman, (Natalie, Natasha, Natali see note below) perhaps my verbal herbal insides, my turgid insights, will be shorter, sweeter, but never more completer than those of, who can syncopate it in rhyme and the naming of my predilection, by mid~initial, will give a measuring of solace, and a kiss and hug from my mirrored selfie, having been unsuccessful at my one chosen endeavor, only love poetry, adieu, I, due, utter Nevermore                     M>
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Sep 2, 2025
Sep 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM UTC
"A love poem is a kiss, whispered sweetly"
"Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly" (2) who needs challenges, commissions. kicks~in~le butte~ when heaven heaves rains, one downs tall orders in short shot glass verses, which glossed over at its first communion(cation, come back months later to subtract - another poem from where it lay dormant on the doormat of my sub~sub~terranes of my diluted subconscious au natured dry & rugged terrain a favored poet, a secretive admirer, whoa~whose~her truthful name, I've yet to uncover, but whose one true soul inspires me repeatedly, ana~lyrically licks me into dredging from me un begrudgingly and yet, another love poem, she herself wrote when elixiring (commentating (3)) 'pon one of mine, a long long time ago Alas!  Alack! unnaturally immodest, one concedes, when obviously a Super~Woman!-cedes, seeds in three verses, what I  could never unknot nor uncover so I requite & requote with unlabored pleasure miz patty m's primary terse verse, neither secondary & never tertiary, her absolut perfect mixed drink defining, summarizing, the essences of love *"(Love) Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly"* I concede, in deed, and in writing, I know nothing, of writing of only love poetry and all the great predecessors, elsewhere lyricized, named and tabulated, by yet another women, (1) I will take my weary words elsewhere, and if perhaps, disguised as a woman, (Natalie, Natasha, Natali see note below) perhaps my verbal herbal insides, my turgid insights, will be shorter, sweeter, but never more completer than those of, who can syncopate it in rhyme and the naming of my predilection, by mid~initial, will give a measuring of solace, and a kiss and hug from my mirrored selfie, having been unsuccessful at my one chosen endeavor, only love poetry, adieu, I, due, utter Nevermore                     M>
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When life gives you lemons, Breathe Because there is only so much you can get out of lemonade. Take your time measuring The sugar To balance out The sour taste that Lingers Until after. And if you make a mistake, If it seams the sour still screams, Remember that it Exists For you to Anticipate Every next sweet sip. There will be unwanted pulp. Don't drain it out. And there will be spills, So many spills Until all sweet And all sour have run out. But wait. Because life always has more lemons To throw right your way.
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Mar 29, 2014
Mar 29, 2014 at 8:16 AM UTC
Life and Lemonade
the ashes of ancient alchemical martyrs glow in the great tunnels of Hadron, whizzing faster than time at the behest of man, the measurer of all things including whether things are worth measuring or not a sordid joke on the great minds that sorted the mystery out long before quantum physicists crawled out from under the church’s labyrinth of insulting confabulations and pillaged the fortunes of others to build the great rings shall we bow to the new God? **** your experience, I’ll prove you wrong* He bellows from the podium built from the finest endangered trees and polished with the spit of all who disagree, and yet it’s truth in action the 9mm’s omniscient song sung across this suffering world: **** with me, and you’ll discover the truth**
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Mar 7, 2011
Mar 7, 2011 at 7:36 PM UTC
Collision
Sitting past the reeds upon a willow tree the kingfisher surveys his watery larder With keen polaroid eyes a victim he spies and measuring distance he makes his next move A flicker in thought his blue metallic wings now do go into action such a beautiful thing Down from the branches wings folded back he darts into the stream by the banks waters edge The minnow that was hunting has now become the hunted and out of crystal waters the kingfisher is victorious Out of the stream with feathers to preen after a hearty fill of minnow and bream By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 8:53 PM UTC
Kingfisher
To Struga Festival Golden Wreath Laureates & International Bards 1986 Stand up against governments, against God. Stay irresponsible. Say only what we know & imagine. Absolutes are coercion. Change is absolute. Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Observe what's vivid. Notice what you notice. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. If we don't show anyone, we're free to write anything. Remember the future. Advise only yourself. Don't drink yourself to death. Two molecules clanking against each other requires an observer to become scientific data. The measuring instrument determines the appearance of the phenomenal world after Einstein. The universe is subjective. Walt Whitman celebrated Person. We Are an observer, measuring instrument, eye, subject, Person. Universe is person. Inside skull vast as outside skull. Mind is outer space. "Each on his bed spoke to himself alone, making no sound." First thought, best thought. Mind is shapely, Art is shapely. Maximum information, minimum number of syllables. Syntax condensed, sound is solid. Intense fragments of spoken idiom, best. Consonants around vowels make sense. Savor vowels, appreciate consonants. Subject is known by what she sees. Others can measure their vision by what we see. Candor ends paranoia. Kral Majales June 25, 1986 Boulder, Colorado
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Cosmopolitan Greetings
34 24 34 the numbers controlling my life the numbers that i strive to be pure perfection causing my body to eat itself while it withers away into nothingness im exhausted trapped in hell a hell created by numbers on a measuring tape just one less calorie and i'll be okay i'll be happy finally beautiful enough 300 the calories fueling me through my days as i drag along until i find myself closer to the edge of self destruction deeper in hell i fall trapped even further in the darkness praying i can find my way back to the light back to sanity ugh i want my life back i want to know what it is like to wake up in the morning loving yourself to look in the mirror not hating every aspect of the person in front of you to get through a day without having to shield your face to hide the burning tears rolling down your cheeks   to not have the destructive thoughts waiting to drag you though the dirt when you think you are finally okay i want to know what it's like to be me again
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Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018 at 10:44 PM UTC
Day 1
The light tail of the tail light leaves me blue in the dark hues … when it carries away what I belong to… Unfolding the tar-black sky of asphalt, the longest arm of missing you… My body is now the distance between us, big and empty, The bigger, the emptier, thinner than air… As time piles up, my ladders turn into pointless meters Measuring the ratio of nothing in everything
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Dec 27, 2018
Dec 27, 2018 at 7:54 AM UTC
Shadow Spill
People show love in many ways A note on the bathroom door An extra brownie in your lunch box Starting the car on a cold morning For her it  was in her food She cooked her emotions the way most chefs add salt You could taste them clearly in every bite connecting your tastebuds to your heart, If she was happy the steak melted on your tongue If she was sad the soup made a tear glisten in your eye But when she was in love with me Every Bite sang in my mouth She made my favorites every night Life was good But one day the bread wasn’t so fluffy It held a melancholy note i’ve never tasted before I asked what was wrong but she didn’t have the words to explain what she as feeling, So I let it go That was my mistake Day by day, she started to crumble So did her pies She went from a wonder dancing in the kitchen and licking the spoon To a hollow shell serving you lukewarm pasta that left you unsettled I excused her behavior I was busy she was stressed The food was only cold because I was so late to the table I didn’t realize it wasn’t dinner I was neglecting It was her If i could change one moment in my life, i’d be that night The one where she finally felt up to baking again We had some time together, she hummed a bit as she stirred the batter But then she stumbled and dropped a glass measuring cup of milk she was holding It was bitter irony seeing the woman i loved, The light of my life, Crying over spilled milk That’d be the moment i’d change I’d catch her wrist and hold her up Just Like I promised I would I wouldn’t fail her if I had another chance Our kitchen is quiet these days There's a thick layer of dust everywhere except the microwave And around the edges of the room are tiny bits of glass Glistening like diamonds Or unshed tears, Abandoned like me But I can’t complain After all, I abandoned her first I should have read the recipe I should have realized she was breaking I didn’t see it at first But every bite held a piece of her suicide note If i’d only tasted it before it was too late Now she’s gone My hearts as broken as that measuring cup And I’m the one crying over spilled milk By Aknier     ~this is fictional~
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Nov 9, 2018
Nov 9, 2018 at 10:48 PM UTC
Spilled Milk ~a long story~
People show love in many ways A note on the bathroom door An extra brownie in your lunch box Starting the car on a cold morning For her it  was in her food She cooked her emotions the way most chefs add salt You could taste them clearly in every bite connecting your tastebuds to your heart, If she was happy the steak melted on your tongue If she was sad the soup made a tear glisten in your eye But when she was in love with me Every Bite sang in my mouth She made my favorites every night Life was good But one day the bread wasn’t so fluffy It held a melancholy note i’ve never tasted before I asked what was wrong but she didn’t have the words to explain what she as feeling, So I let it go That was my mistake Day by day, she started to crumble So did her pies She went from a wonder dancing in the kitchen and licking the spoon To a hollow shell serving you lukewarm pasta that left you unsettled I excused her behavior I was busy she was stressed The food was only cold because I was so late to the table I didn’t realize it wasn’t dinner I was neglecting It was her If i could change one moment in my life, i’d be that night The one where she finally felt up to baking again We had some time together, she hummed a bit as she stirred the batter But then she stumbled and dropped a glass measuring cup of milk she was holding It was bitter irony seeing the woman i loved, The light of my life, Crying over spilled milk That’d be the moment i’d change I’d catch her wrist and hold her up Just Like I promised I would I wouldn’t fail her if I had another chance Our kitchen is quiet these days There's a thick layer of dust everywhere except the microwave And around the edges of the room are tiny bits of glass Glistening like diamonds Or unshed tears, Abandoned like me But I can’t complain After all, I abandoned her first I should have read the recipe I should have realized she was breaking I didn’t see it at first But every bite held a piece of her suicide note If i’d only tasted it before it was too late Now she’s gone My hearts as broken as that measuring cup And I’m the one crying over spilled milk By Aknier     ~this is fictional~
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I was sitting on a bench Once And was measuring out my life Day by day When a happy, friendly, squirrel Started to hop along my way He looked me over once Then twice for good measure He chewed his chubby cheeks Then smiled with pleasure It's simple presence Calmed my whole being I breathed out my troubles Then began again, with a new way of seeing
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Apr 4, 2014
Apr 4, 2014 at 7:32 PM UTC
Squirrels
Does evil exist? Well, does it, or not? I demand an answer And if it does, hold that thought Because if wrong does exist We must face the reality That calling something wrong means There's a right way things ought to be But if wrong does not truly Exist in bright colors Well, what, then is justice But a meaningless construct? If the **** of a child In all histories and cultures Can be called pure evil Even by society's worst prisoners If the ****** of innocents Is forever and always An evil in society That can't be tolerated If imprisonment of a woman Like chattel for sale Being held as a *** slave In her own private hell Or murdering Jews Like Hitler's evil plan Or starving millions unjustly In Stalin's Ukraine Or killing the masses For political expedience Culling babies in China Or locking up dissidents If beheading of heretics Is inherently wrong Or even violating your privacy Or invading your home If these are universally bad And there's meaning in words Then there's universal good That our souls are drawn toward Something more than just philosophy Because that lacks authority And if good is defined by the majority Then what about the minority? Tyrants run roughshod When rights come and go At the whims of the powerful Because what they say goes No, evil is something More than laws, or from cultures Or philosophical sophistry From ivory towers To try to stop badness Is really to defend That there's a god of pure goodness Who wants us like him We can discuss who that god is And what is his substance But the least we can do Is acknowledge his existence You can say that religion Starts evil wars and such And you might just be right But you've just proved too much Because if there is no god Whose nature defines goodness Who are you to call war bad Or **** evil, or hate, darkness? Who are you to sit in judgment Of the religious who you think hate you? If there is no moral standard That makes hate wrong, and judging too? If morality is nothing more Than just a social contract Then it's just he said/she said And there's no moral compass You see, your compass is as good as mine And that may be fine, generally Until the ****** asserts his own Warped idea of morality What makes his wrong And yours universally right? That's a tough question That keeps philosophers up at night Because indeed, if there is no god There's no guilt to assuage For the wrongs that man does Because there is no such gauge It's like measuring empty Without knowing what full is Or like trying to describe love Without knowing who God is
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 6:59 PM UTC
Does evil exist?
Does evil exist? Well, does it, or not? I demand an answer And if it does, hold that thought Because if wrong does exist We must face the reality That calling something wrong means There's a right way things ought to be But if wrong does not truly Exist in bright colors Well, what, then is justice But a meaningless construct? If the **** of a child In all histories and cultures Can be called pure evil Even by society's worst prisoners If the ****** of innocents Is forever and always An evil in society That can't be tolerated If imprisonment of a woman Like chattel for sale Being held as a *** slave In her own private hell Or murdering Jews Like Hitler's evil plan Or starving millions unjustly In Stalin's Ukraine Or killing the masses For political expedience Culling babies in China Or locking up dissidents If beheading of heretics Is inherently wrong Or even violating your privacy Or invading your home If these are universally bad And there's meaning in words Then there's universal good That our souls are drawn toward Something more than just philosophy Because that lacks authority And if good is defined by the majority Then what about the minority? Tyrants run roughshod When rights come and go At the whims of the powerful Because what they say goes No, evil is something More than laws, or from cultures Or philosophical sophistry From ivory towers To try to stop badness Is really to defend That there's a god of pure goodness Who wants us like him We can discuss who that god is And what is his substance But the least we can do Is acknowledge his existence You can say that religion Starts evil wars and such And you might just be right But you've just proved too much Because if there is no god Whose nature defines goodness Who are you to call war bad Or **** evil, or hate, darkness? Who are you to sit in judgment Of the religious who you think hate you? If there is no moral standard That makes hate wrong, and judging too? If morality is nothing more Than just a social contract Then it's just he said/she said And there's no moral compass You see, your compass is as good as mine And that may be fine, generally Until the ****** asserts his own Warped idea of morality What makes his wrong And yours universally right? That's a tough question That keeps philosophers up at night Because indeed, if there is no god There's no guilt to assuage For the wrongs that man does Because there is no such gauge It's like measuring empty Without knowing what full is Or like trying to describe love Without knowing who God is
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are you generally happy? a semi-innocuous query now actualized as a two sided bladed poker, hot stabbing me smack dab in the chests hollow crown bullseye, continuously,  as in all life long, and eternal longing for a “yes” it fits inside a pubescent aged wound that refreshes with every breath; a life long struggle for an accurate definition, be a general of genuine happy, that alone would deliver, bringing on bright day satisfaction as a human, one operates on parallel continuums; slide slipping on well oiled poles that over the years, their lengths, increasing with add-on extender poles formed by twisty turny slips and falls of sundered hearts and sad loves, marriages nicknamed Titanic, children found and lost, complications responsibilities that are denied meeting the words     “The End” a life that many would envy, questioning what’s wrong with you dude, are you blinded to the riches yours, reality is shoulders permanently bent, a spine that’s held together by spit and solder and curved by wearying wearing longing for a straightness that is also called crooked unobtainable and a piece of a peace that comes and goes like a highway billboard that you pass too fast to be fully read the body is corroding and worser yet to come and that’s a hand you selected - luck of the self-selecting-drawing - the opioids of the mind offers are rejected the clarity of painful self exploration valued overall - the place where the poems come from, and go to die, a landscape of a scene repeatedly visualized but never been and never left, the crazy contradictions come in two flavors; vanilla smiles and chocolate weeping of tears that have etched pathways cheek-chiseled the city is a struggling strife for most, the next red line on the side of the measuring cup  and everyone has a cell, a credit card, and a measuring cup <•> here I stop can’t finish   someone missing alerts me to their real worlds troubles making my complaints super superficial but the silent running of the stilleto cuts shallow repeated hourly the cut color, pitch black
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May 26, 2018
May 26, 2018 at 2:05 PM UTC
are you generally happy?
are you generally happy? a semi-innocuous query now actualized as a two sided bladed poker, hot stabbing me smack dab in the chests hollow crown bullseye, continuously,  as in all life long, and eternal longing for a “yes” it fits inside a pubescent aged wound that refreshes with every breath; a life long struggle for an accurate definition, be a general of genuine happy, that alone would deliver, bringing on bright day satisfaction as a human, one operates on parallel continuums; slide slipping on well oiled poles that over the years, their lengths, increasing with add-on extender poles formed by twisty turny slips and falls of sundered hearts and sad loves, marriages nicknamed Titanic, children found and lost, complications responsibilities that are denied meeting the words     “The End” a life that many would envy, questioning what’s wrong with you dude, are you blinded to the riches yours, reality is shoulders permanently bent, a spine that’s held together by spit and solder and curved by wearying wearing longing for a straightness that is also called crooked unobtainable and a piece of a peace that comes and goes like a highway billboard that you pass too fast to be fully read the body is corroding and worser yet to come and that’s a hand you selected - luck of the self-selecting-drawing - the opioids of the mind offers are rejected the clarity of painful self exploration valued overall - the place where the poems come from, and go to die, a landscape of a scene repeatedly visualized but never been and never left, the crazy contradictions come in two flavors; vanilla smiles and chocolate weeping of tears that have etched pathways cheek-chiseled the city is a struggling strife for most, the next red line on the side of the measuring cup  and everyone has a cell, a credit card, and a measuring cup <•> here I stop can’t finish   someone missing alerts me to their real worlds troubles making my complaints super superficial but the silent running of the stilleto cuts shallow repeated hourly the cut color, pitch black
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I’ve O’D’d on Glucosamine Sulphate, so much I’m mentally scarred. It’s escalated now I’m 70… I’ve mainlined on my Senior Railcard… I bow down to the Norse God Voltarol… He eases all my pains… and there’s Deep Heat, Germaloids, even Anusol for the other stresses and strains. The wondrous Winter Fuel Allowance! That’s what lights our lamp these dark days - ahh, those twilight hours! But after the logs, it’s not Leccy or Gas we crave? No! We buy ***** with ours… the Whisky, Gin, ***** Wine, a drop of Brandy too. It all helps us numb the cold whilst memories of happier times gone by - brighten up this ****** growing old. Supplements, sterols, statins, aspirin, beta blockers… All the heart meds - life’s a battle. In the 60s it was *** and Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll… Now there’s less *** and a lot more rattle! ****** fails to make it now - “no more”, after the last time - she said! These days the only thing it does is stop me rolling out of bed! The bus pass lets me roam the world… from John O’Groats to Land’s End. But these days I travel locally Southwick, Lancing, Steyning; oh yeh and a cousin in far Gravesend. Further afield; abroad perhaps? Well no…Back then it was Newhaven for the Continent. But now I’m over 70, well, it’ll just be Worthing for the INCONTINENT! And… did I say? Not that I was ever in the habit of measuring it you understand - or straightening out the kinks I’m pretty sure that these days - and ’no’ it’s NOT just the cold… but, your once adequate **** - it shrinks! I'm sorry...Your ******* It ain't so long!
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Dec 28, 2018
Dec 28, 2018 at 4:15 PM UTC
Things to look forward to when you’re 70+! (apart from a delayed pension).
I’ve O’D’d on Glucosamine Sulphate, so much I’m mentally scarred. It’s escalated now I’m 70… I’ve mainlined on my Senior Railcard… I bow down to the Norse God Voltarol… He eases all my pains… and there’s Deep Heat, Germaloids, even Anusol for the other stresses and strains. The wondrous Winter Fuel Allowance! That’s what lights our lamp these dark days - ahh, those twilight hours! But after the logs, it’s not Leccy or Gas we crave? No! We buy ***** with ours… the Whisky, Gin, ***** Wine, a drop of Brandy too. It all helps us numb the cold whilst memories of happier times gone by - brighten up this ****** growing old. Supplements, sterols, statins, aspirin, beta blockers… All the heart meds - life’s a battle. In the 60s it was *** and Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll… Now there’s less *** and a lot more rattle! ****** fails to make it now - “no more”, after the last time - she said! These days the only thing it does is stop me rolling out of bed! The bus pass lets me roam the world… from John O’Groats to Land’s End. But these days I travel locally Southwick, Lancing, Steyning; oh yeh and a cousin in far Gravesend. Further afield; abroad perhaps? Well no…Back then it was Newhaven for the Continent. But now I’m over 70, well, it’ll just be Worthing for the INCONTINENT! And… did I say? Not that I was ever in the habit of measuring it you understand - or straightening out the kinks I’m pretty sure that these days - and ’no’ it’s NOT just the cold… but, your once adequate **** - it shrinks! I'm sorry...Your ******* It ain't so long!
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"Everyone wants to be a little anorexic" she says "You know, like, in a glamorous way, like fashion friendly anorexic" I bite my cheek and nod, pretend to agree All I can think of is waking up to stars dancing on the ceiling Pale skin with bruises of unknown origins And battered feet on and off the scale Almonds in Ziploc baggies Bite marks on fingers Hair down the drain Measuring crunches by the marks they leave on your spine And battered feet on and off the scale Enough water to turn organs into boats Eating an apple with a fork and knife Desperate hands grasping for ribs And battered feet on and off the scale Standing and the world going dark Coughing around shots of apple cider vinegar Carrying an emergency rice cake for weak spells And battered feet on and off the scale Enough green tea to drown organs Sugar free gum to mask the smell of decaying organs Whatever nail polish covers yellow and purple And battered feet on and off the scale How many calories are in toothpaste Thinspo blogs Pillows squeezed between thighs And battered feet on and off the scale Is today the day my heart gives out Waking every day in a new body Fingers clasped around wrists And battered feet on and off the scale Notebooks filled with numbers Purple crescents under eyes Fingers clasped around forearms And battered feet on and off the scale Elbows knocking into hipbones Being scared of your own reflection Lies to get out of dinner And battered feet on and off the scale The stench of ***** Oxygen that tastes of Splenda Fingers clasped around biceps And bleeding feet on and off the scale   If this is your idea of glamour Then you can have it
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Nov 27, 2018
Nov 27, 2018 at 12:48 PM UTC
Fashion Friendly Anorexic
"Everyone wants to be a little anorexic" she says "You know, like, in a glamorous way, like fashion friendly anorexic" I bite my cheek and nod, pretend to agree All I can think of is waking up to stars dancing on the ceiling Pale skin with bruises of unknown origins And battered feet on and off the scale Almonds in Ziploc baggies Bite marks on fingers Hair down the drain Measuring crunches by the marks they leave on your spine And battered feet on and off the scale Enough water to turn organs into boats Eating an apple with a fork and knife Desperate hands grasping for ribs And battered feet on and off the scale Standing and the world going dark Coughing around shots of apple cider vinegar Carrying an emergency rice cake for weak spells And battered feet on and off the scale Enough green tea to drown organs Sugar free gum to mask the smell of decaying organs Whatever nail polish covers yellow and purple And battered feet on and off the scale How many calories are in toothpaste Thinspo blogs Pillows squeezed between thighs And battered feet on and off the scale Is today the day my heart gives out Waking every day in a new body Fingers clasped around wrists And battered feet on and off the scale Notebooks filled with numbers Purple crescents under eyes Fingers clasped around forearms And battered feet on and off the scale Elbows knocking into hipbones Being scared of your own reflection Lies to get out of dinner And battered feet on and off the scale The stench of ***** Oxygen that tastes of Splenda Fingers clasped around biceps And bleeding feet on and off the scale   If this is your idea of glamour Then you can have it
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I started growing measuring each incremental inch in the doorway frame grinning as it clearly showed a spurt. Although my bones were aching I ran as fast as I could to the corner and back time and time again Challenging my small young frame to ache and grow And, oh, the pleasure of those growing aches as I leaped to push upward taller older. Those aches felt so good! lawrence j klumas © july 2014
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 5:07 PM UTC
Aching Bones
The tiny town's talented tailor swiftly sews silken suits, in his shop he plays the Wailers, Bob Marley fills his boots. Beside his shop sits Susie's Sushie, she serves him lunch every Tuesday, he leaves a tip because she treats him well, he's got a crush and she can tell. After lunch it's back to work, measuring here and stitching there, everything is done just savoirfaire. All the town folk say he is the master, he smiles at this and works all the faster. Then on the corner the clock strikes five, with the last suit hung he says enough of this jive. He shuts the light and locks the door, nine bells tomorrow he'll be back for more.
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Jun 16, 2012
Jun 16, 2012 at 8:33 AM UTC
Talented Tailor
He came, He left, She followed Turquoise paintings of purple hues Often bring about madness 4th degree burns turn blue In sunlight Breaking 4th wall **** in hand Third-leg stand Exhaustion creeping over bones Arthritis Hepatitis C The vitamin Makes a graduation From the bowels of the high Schooler Rulers Exact measurements My ***** is this big Preschool measuring There are 3 cups of juice left over How many ounces in a cup? Pig pen See men Wafting around in filth I. Await for something post period Pregnant pauses
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Jun 7, 2013
Jun 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM UTC
Nonsensical